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Subject: [NIFL-ESL:2735] Re: Testing
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This "graduation" to the next level is tricky. We serve about 500 adult ESL learners in the Wastsonville Adult School where I teach, with both day and night classes. The teachers use at LEAST 3 tests to determine whether or not the student passes to the next level. CASAS is given to everyone, and an ORAL test (a teacher, with a set a questions and standards, visits each class and speaks with each student individually to determine each student's level of oral skills. The information is then passed on to the classroom teacher in writing.) Then each teacher has the choice of giving a grammar test which has been prepared for each level by a committee of our own teachers, or a new test created by the current teacher, and finally a writing sample, where the student is given a picture (prompt) and asked to write about it. We say that a student needs to pass at least 2 out of 3 tests to pass to the next level. It's difficult with our adult ESL because we are near the Salinas Valley in California, and many of our students are migrant field workers...attendance is sporadic, to say the least! And we have open enrollment, which means that new students are entering our classes every week, right to the end! We are always working on this...trying to find better ways to evaluate the students. This topic is very timely and helpful. Thank you all!
Teresita Marchisello
Watsonville Adult School
Watsonville, California
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